Chapter 9. Tenants
A Tenant is an OpenStack term for an organizational unit or project. OpenStack uses tenants for the following reasons:
- Assigning users to a project
- Defining quotas for a project
- Applying access and security rules for a project
- Managing resources and instances for a project
This helps administrators and users organize their OpenStack environment and define limits for different groups of people. For example, one project might require higher quotas and another project might require restricted access to certain ports. OpenStack allows you to define these limits and apply them to a project.
Red Hat CloudForms can abstract information from tenants including quotas and relationships to other OpenStack objects.
To see multiple tenants in Red Hat CloudForms, the user authenticating to your OpenStack environment from Red Hat CloudForms must be configured to have visibility into these tenants.
9.1. Tenant Mapping
When adding an OpenStack cloud or infrastructure provider, you can enable tenant mapping in Red Hat CloudForms to map any existing tenants from that provider. This means Red Hat CloudForms will create new cloud tenants to match each of existing OpenStack tenants; each new cloud tenant and its corresponding OpenStack tenant will have identical user memberships, quotas, access/security rules, and resources assignments.
During a provider refresh, Red Hat CloudForms will also check for any changes to the tenant list in OpenStack. Red Hat CloudForms will create new cloud tenants to match any new tenants, and delete any cloud tenants whose corresponding OpenStack tenants no longer exist. Red Hat CloudForms will also replicate any changes to OpenStack tenants to their corresponding cloud tenants.
9.2. Viewing a Tenant
Click on a specific tenant to view its details. The screen provides you with a tenant accordion and a tenant summary.
- Use tenant summary Views to change how you are looking at the Summary.
- Use the tenant accordion to view the Properties of the tenant and its Relationships.
- Use the tenant summary to see details on Relationships (Cloud Provider, Security Groups, Instances, and Images), Quotas (including all OpenStack Compute, Network, and Volume quotas) and Smart Management (Company Tags).
9.3. Viewing Tenant Relationships
Use the tenant accordion’s Relationship section to see items related to the tenant.
- Navigate to → → .
- Click a tenant to view the configuration.
- From the tenant accordion, click Relationships.
- Click the type of Resource to see the flavor’s relationships.
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